<div><div dir="auto">On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 11:42 AM Matthew Whiton via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">> I'm looking for suggestions for a digital camera </div><div dir="auto">>. that is good enough to shoot quality production</div><div dir="auto">>. photos with available light.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Any number of prosumer dSLRs from Nikon, Canon, and &c. would do the job (I’m partial to Canon EOS midgrades like the old 40D and 7D). As long as the body has a decent sensor and has a feature set you like, you’re good to go. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">To my mind, the better question is what lens can you use? And can the camera body wring our all the light data that the lens system feeds it. I’m sure my photo-bug brethren (Brendan Quigley, Andy Leviss) will step in here with gobs of sage wisdom, but I think a good 80% or more of the answer to your situation is getting the best lens possible. In Canon, that’s the L Series of lenses, identified by the red stripe around the lens body. Their glass is an order of magnitude clearer than the “normal” Canon line, and they’re built to a higher standard... But of course you pay for that. I like using the biggest, fastest lens possible - my main “walking around” lens is a Canon L series 24-70mm f2.8 zoom, which works very well onstage (among other places). To an extent your focal length depends on where you’re shooting from; front row and wings or FOH. I could have spent a lot less for a “decent” mid-range zoomer, but I’ve never yet in ten years regretted ponying up for the best lens I could find, even if it was a shade more than I really could afford at the time.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">TL;DR: if you have to cut corners, do it with the camera body, *NEVER* with the lenses.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dave Vick<br>517-749-3859<br>Sent from my #%!^¥? iPhone</div>